And even those who have harmed others—what if there had been appropriate interventions, medical interventions, compassionate interventions, early on? What if we, if all of us, had access to health care that centered the patient, not the money? Systems like this actually exist on this planet, in this time. Why is America so tethered to punishment and judgment, to one life mattering and another not? I am thinking of all the people, like my brother, like my father—who have been the targets of harm, not the harm itself.
